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December 2023
Éigse: A Journal of Irish Studies. Volume 42 (2023)
Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research on the Irish language and its literature, embracing both textual and contextual studies. *Liam Mac Mathúna* is Professor Emeritus of Irish at University College Dublin. His extensive publications...
Éigse is devoted to the cultivation of a wide range of research on the Irish language and its literature, embracing both textual...
Author/Editor:
Liam Mac Mathúna
February 2024
Two Lives of Saint Brigid
St. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a monastery for men and women at Kildare which became one of the most powerful and influential...
St. Brigid is the earliest and best-known of the female saints of Ireland. In the generation after St. Patrick, she established a...
Author/Editor:
Philip Freeman
February 2024
Spirit of Revolution
Ireland from below, 1917–1923
In the spring of 1919, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George wrote: ‘The whole of Europe is filled with the spirit of revolution. There is a deep sense not only of discontent, but of anger and revolt, amongst...
In the spring of 1919, UK Prime Minister David Lloyd George wrote: ‘The whole of Europe is filled with the spirit...
Author/Editor:
John Cunningham & Terry Dunne, editors
March/April 2024
Confluences of Law and History
Irish Legal History Society Discourses, 2011-2021
This book brings together an eclectic mix of papers on aspects of Irish legal history from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Contributors to the volume include leading historians, legal historians and legal practitioners. They make use of...
This book brings together an eclectic mix of papers on aspects of Irish legal history from the early modern period to the twentieth...
Author/Editor:
Niamh Howlin and Felix M. Larkin
April 2024
The Uí Chellaig lords of Uí Maine and Tír Maine
An archaeological and landscape exploration of a later medieval inland Gaelic lordship
The Ó Cellaig (O’Kelly) lordship of Uí Maine and Tír Maine was a substantial political territory and influential cultural power in later medieval Connacht. This book identifies and reconstructs the physical appearance of the major Ó Cellaig lordly centres...
The Ó Cellaig (O’Kelly) lordship of Uí Maine and Tír Maine was a substantial political territory and influential cultural power in later...
Author/Editor:
Daniel Patrick Curley
April 2024
The Irish Volunteers, 1913–19
A history
No organization was more central to the history of Ireland in the 20th century than the Irish Volunteers. This is the first authoritative history of that body from its inception in November 1913 to its rebranding as the...
No organization was more central to the history of Ireland in the 20th century than the Irish Volunteers. This is the first...
Author/Editor:
Daithí Ó Corráin
April 2024
The Irish-Scottish World in the Middle Ages
In this volume, the proceedings of the second Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium (marking the 700th anniversary of the invasion of Ireland by Edward, brother of King Robert Bruce of Scotland), experts explore crucial aspects of Irish–Scottish links in the...
In this volume, the proceedings of the second Trinity Medieval Ireland Symposium (marking the 700th anniversary of the invasion of Ireland by...
Author/Editor:
Seán Duffy, David Ditchburn & Peter Crooks, editors
April 2024
Through the builder's lens
Dublin's evolving streetscapes
Many people have helped create Dublin’s unique streetscapes. This book looks at the builders and their projects and draws on the extraordinarily rich photographic archive of one of Dublin’s foremost construction companies, G. & T. Crampton, as it explores...
Many people have helped create Dublin’s unique streetscapes. This book looks at the builders and their projects and draws on the extraordinarily...
Author/Editor:
Ruth McManus
April 2024
Directory of Historic Dublin Guilds
Second Edition
First published in 1993, and winner of the Phillimore Prize, this directory is re-issued in an expanded format, with full colour illustrations throughout. A must-have for local and family history. *Mary Clark* is the Dublin City Archivist. *Raymond Refausse* is...
First published in 1993, and winner of the Phillimore Prize, this directory is re-issued in an expanded format, with full colour illustrations...
Author/Editor:
Mary Clark & Raymond Refausse, editors
April 2024
The Mansion House Fund 1880
The Little Famine of 1880 resulted from disastrous harvest failures in Ireland in the late 1870s. Hunger and poverty were evident throughout the country and a rapid response was needed to prevent the catastrophic loss of life which occurred...
The Little Famine of 1880 resulted from disastrous harvest failures in Ireland in the late 1870s. Hunger and poverty were evident throughout...
Author/Editor:
David O’Regan, editor
April 2024
Representing Belfast's pasts
From port to commercial centre, and from textile town to centre of shipbuilding, Belfast has adapted, chameleon-like, to changing circumstances. Each of these changes has resulted in a reimagination of the city’s past to make it useable for the...
From port to commercial centre, and from textile town to centre of shipbuilding, Belfast has adapted, chameleon-like, to changing circumstances. Each of...
Author/Editor:
Raymond Gillespie & Jonathan Jeffrey Wright, editors
April 2024
Limestone and River
Essays on Limerick history in honour of Liam Irwin
From Viking trading place to modern hi-tech city, Limerick’s long history as Ireland’s oldest Atlantic port has been played out against its natural backdrop of limestone and river. The stone circles of Lough Gur, the Norman strongholds of Askeaton...
From Viking trading place to modern hi-tech city, Limerick’s long history as Ireland’s oldest Atlantic port has been played out against its...
Author/Editor:
Brian Hodkinson & Catherine Swift, editors
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